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The only thing I can think of is that you perhaps did not empty your recycle bin. Try emptying it, and see if the rest of your HDD space shows up
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Assuming this is the same drive the swap file lives on, Windows may be commandeering some of that suddenly available 5.96GB of new free space to increase the size of the swap file. Since it sounds like you only had a few hundred MB of free space to begin with, Windows wouldn't normally be satisfied with that little amount of 'virtual memory'. That's my guess. Windows just dynamically increased the size of the swap file. And forgive the correction, but it's not 'memory', it's 'disk space'.
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